US1142067A - Means for anchoring stovepipes. - Google Patents

Description

W. B. TABOR.

MEANS FOR ANCHORING STOVEPIPES. APPLICATION FILED mmao, 19w

1 ,142,067. Patented June 8, 1915.

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MEANS FOR ANGHOBING STQVEPIPES.

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Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented June 8, 1915.

Application filed January 30, 1915. Serial No. 5,271.

To all 1071 am it may concern I Be it known that I, WILLIAM B. Tacos, a citizen of the United States, residing at citaunton, in the county of vlacoupin and State of Illinois, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Means for Air choring tovepipes, of which the following is aspecifleation, reference being had to the accompanying drawings.

My invention relates to smoke stacks or stove pipes, and particularly to means whereby a smoke stack or stove pipe may be anchored to a flue wall.

The primary object of my invention is the provision of a very simple and effective form of stove pipe section so constructed that it may be readily interlocked or anchored to a flue wall, provision being made whereby a joint of the pipe section may be closed and made smoke-tight. I

A further object of the invention is to so construct a stove pipe section of this character that the sections may be readily nested for transportation and readily applied to or removed from engagement with a flue wall.

@ther objects will appear in the course of the following description.

My invention is illustrated in the accompanying drawings wherein- Figure 1 is a longitudinal sectional view of a smoke stack or stove pipe illustrated as projecting from a wall and interlocked therewith; Fig. 2 is a fragmentary rear elevation of a portion of the stack or pipe showing the joint therein; Fig. 3 is a section on the line 3-3 of Fig. 1; Fig. A is a perspective view of the joint cap; and Fig.

5 is a perspective view of a portion of one of the pipe sections.

All of the sections of the smoke stack or pipe have the form illustrated in Fig. 5, that is, each section has a cylindrical body 2 with radially projecting oppositely disposed confronting flanges 8, these flanges being provided along their entire extent with belt holes 4:, these bolt holes being spaced a predetermined distance apart as for instance, about two inches. Normally, there is suffi cient resiliency in each of the pipe sections that the flanges 3 are held separated from each other but the flanges are brought into smoke tight contact by means of the bolts which pass through the flanges and by means of a joint cap 5 illustrated in Fig. 4. This joint cap is U-shaped in form and fits over the flanges 8 and clamps these flanges together and the joint cap is formed with a plurality of perforations 6, these perforatrons being spaced apart from each other the same distance that the perforations 4: are. After the cap has been placed upon the oint, the bolts 7 are passed through the perforations as illustrated in Fig. 3, and the flanges pressed tightly in engagement with each other. It is to be noted that the joint caps, while they have a length equal to each section of the pipe, are disposed upon the joint pipe sections in staggered relation so that when one section of the pipe is inserted within the next adjacent section, the joint cap will overlap both of these sections.

In order to provide means whereby a stove pipe or stack may be anchored to a wall, as for instance a flue wall, I provide a section A which has its flanges 3 cut away as at 8 to an extent equal to the thickness of the wall 13, these flanges 8 being bent inward so as to overlap. A small portion of the seam 3 is left at the end of the pipe so as to engage upon the rear face of the flue wall and prevent the joints from pulling out of the flue. Before the flanges 3 of this section of the pipe are bolted, the pipe section can be rolled together somewhat so as to make it smaller in diameter when inserted within the flue opening and allow it to spring out to its proper diameter. This causes the flanges 3" to lock in the flue. After this is done and the next pipe section is inserted in the end of the section A, the bolts 7 may be inserted and the pipe sections bolted into position.

As illustrated, the section 0 which follows the section A is shown as an elbow. In the case of the elbow section, the seam or joint formed by the flanges C is to be disposed so that it will not be readily observable and will extend upward and be hidden by the body of the stack or pipe, as shown in Fig. 1.

It will be seen that my construction permits the ready engagement of a stove pipe or smoke stack with a wall and further it will be seen that the section A which is formed for engagement with the wall may be initially formed with the outstanding flanges and the inturned flanges but without these flanges being joined to each other and thus the pipe sections may be readily nested for transportation.

Having described my invention, what I claim is 1. The combination with a wall, of a pipe cut away for a ness of the Wall, the pipe section being inradially projecting flanges, the flanges being distance equalto the thick:

serted through an opening in said wall, the wall engaging the cutaway portion to thereby interlock the pipe section to the wall, and means engaging said outstanding flanges and holding them abutted' against each other, to close the pipe'section.

2. The combination with a Wall, of a pipe section projecting therefrom, said section having radially projecting flanges, the

' flanges being cut away for a distance equal to the thickness of the wall, the pipe section being inserted'through an opening in said wall, and said wall engaging in the cut away portion to thereby interlock the pipe section to the wall, and a cap fitting over that portion of the flange joint exterior to the wall and engaging the flanges;

3. As an article of manufacture, a hollow 7 pipe section longitudinally split and provided with outwardly. projecting longitudinally extending flanges, said flanges being cut away at one point to provide an opening adapted to permit said flangesto embrace a Wall, said; outwardly projecting flanges being adapted to be engaged with each other;

4. As an article of manufacture, a pipe section composed ofryielding material, said section having a cylindrical body longitudinally split and formed with radially projecting confronting flanges, certain opposite portions of the flangesbeing separated from the remaining portions of the flanges, said separated portions being bent at an angle to the plane of the outstanding portionsof the flanges and overlapping each other, the portions of the flanges so bent having a Width equal to a wall into'which the section is to be inserted to thereby form an interlocking notch in theoutstanding flanges adapted to embrace said Wall, said outstanding flanges being adapted to be closed against each other to thereby close the pipe section.

In testimony whereof I hereunto aflix my signature in the presence of witnesses.

WM. HUNTMAN, HENRY J. BURNS.

Copies of this patent may be obtained for five cents each, by addressing the Comm1ssioner 5: Patentl, I Washington, D. G. a

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